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Apple Files Emergency Motion to Pause ‘Extraordinary’ App Store Ruling on Anti-Steering Injunction

macrumors.com/2025/05/08/apple-appeals-app-store-ruling-epic-games/

Tim Hardwick, reporting for MacRumors: Apple has filed an emergency motion asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to pause key parts of a recent ruling that dramatically changes how the App Store operates, following a contempt finding in its long-running legal battle ...

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The great thing about sports is that a lowly software developer can be richer than a fantastically rich team owner, if the developer's team is the Knicks.

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The latest Baseline theme

I have to say the latest Baseline theme looks great! Here's a blog post I just wrote, in the WordLand editor, and the writing experience was excellent. It took a long time and a lot of work to get it there, but it is there now. But as the post says, it's not just a blog pos...

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Patrick Collison Interviews Former Apple Designer Jony Ive at Stripe Sessions

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I’m about halfway through and already feel the need to link to this. Good questions and thoughtful answers. Just delightful.

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Yours Truly on ‘Primary Technology’

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Co-hosts Stephen Robles and Jason Aten were kind enough to have me on their podcast earlier today, and the show’s already up:

Special guest John Gruber joins us to break down Eddy Cue’s statements on AI replacing the iPhone in 10 years, using AI search in Safari, Apple’s continued fight for App Store control, and what we’ll hear about Siri and Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025.

Available in Overcast, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Or watch on YouTube. Fun show.

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Why new when?

When we make something new, people often ask "why don't you just add that to Basecamp?"There are a number of reasons, depending on what it is. But, broadly, making something brand new gives you latitude (and attitude) to explore new tech and design approaches. It's the op...

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Also, I applied the new Baseline theme to my daveverse site, the one I use to test stuff in WordLand, and occasionally write something with a bit of lasting value. As a result it got a new domain, daveverse.org. We're going to offer the Baseline theme for others to use after a bit more testing and refining. But it's getting close. It seems like it's the last big thing on the agenda, but something else will probably pop up. Praise Murphy.

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Changes coming to Bookmarks in next WordLand release. I cut it back to work exactly like bookmarks in Drummer. I have to do a bit more work before it's ready to release, probably tomorrow.

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How to Catch a North Korean Fake Worker

theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/

Iain Thomson, for The Register: According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior veep in the counter adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have infiltrated the Fortune 500. They’re masking IPs,...

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Dave in the Gilded Age

I asked ChatGPT to "Dress me like guilded age captain of industry in front of his mansion on the Hudson River."

Gilded Age Dave.

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The Trump Administration Signal Scandal, Somehow, Gets Worse

micahflee.com/despite-misleading-marketing-israeli-company-telemessage-used-by-trump-officials-can-access-plaintext-chat-logs/

Micah Lee, in a spectacularly detailed post: On Thursday, 404 Media reported that in the Reuters photo showing former National Security Advisor and war criminal Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages under the table, he was actually using an obscure modified Signal app...

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New feature: How to handle an empty site list.

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The Knicks are unbelievable. It feels like 2015, when the Mets would be down 9-0 in the seventh, and you'd tune in to see how they would win. At the very end of the Knicks game tonight, when the Celtics were up by 1, I thought how would this feel if the Knicks came back so f...

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Eddy Cue, on the Stand in U.S. v. Google Trial, Says Apple Is Eying a Move to AI in Safari

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/apple-working-to-move-to-ai-search-in-browser-amid-google-fallout

Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a longtime partnership with Google. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice pres...

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There's a new dialog in WordLand that confirms the first time you publish a post, and offers to open it in the web browser.

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I want the EV's they're getting in China. Because we've got these stupid trade barriers we can't get the latest tech. Imagine in say 1984 you were a developer outside the US and you couldn't get a Mac. Then, perhaps Trump's tariff might have a slight chance of working. Now we're on the outside looking in.

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Aftermath

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Aftermath: Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that surround them. You might remember most of us from Kotaku, where we broke news, covered events, and brought you hard-hitting investigatio...

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Polygon Gutted by Large-Scale Layoffs After Sale to Sweatshop Aggregator Valnet

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/05/gaming-news-site-polygon-gutted-by-massive-layoffs-amid-sale-to-valnet/

Kyle Orland, reporting for Ars Technica last week: Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to Internet brand aggregator Valnet, the publisher of content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android Police, and Comic Book Resources. The move co...

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Amazon, Finally, Now Has a ‘Get Book’ Button in Its iOS Kindle App

theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books

Andrew Liszewski, The Verge: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings. [...] Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule changes ...